Gary Numan’s “My Name is Ruin”: Resistance, Apocalypse, and “The Righteous”

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I think of Gary Numan as an icon of early 1980s new wave, so it was a really pleasant surprise to find out that not only does he have a new album and video out, but he’s been very active in the last 37 years since “Cars” hit the U.S. charts. Even better, those years look to have been really good to the man, creatively and otherwise. I admit that mentally I’ve had Numan kind of locked away, preserved in a lucite box where skinny ties and Moog synthesizers will always be cutting edge. Numan, apparently, wasn’t willing to stay in that box.

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Gary Numan’s “My Name is Ruin”: Resistance, Apocalypse, and “The Righteous”
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